Reflecting our visual era, this piece plunges the spectator into an interactive visual environment galvanized by music performed live onstage.

In this digital era, Symphonie 5.1 plunges its dancers into an interactive visual environment orchestrated by music that is performed live onstage. This intriguing universe, where reality and fiction merge together, gives way to astonishing visions: a silhouette splits in two, a body pixellates until it dissolves completely. Isabelle Van Grimde questions fluctuating states of identity, the perception of the body and its evolution.

Previously presented in 2016.

Isabelle Van Grimde

A choreographer, founder and artistic director of the Montreal dance company Van Grimde Corps Secrets, Isabelle Van Grimde has had an international career marked by interdisciplinary collaborations that expand the horizons of contemporary dance while multiplying possible perceptions of the body and the piece being staged. Her work is characterized by the quality of the dialogue she encourages between dance and music and, since 2008, by the harmonious integration of new technologies. Open to the world, she conducts theoretical and basic research on the body, research that nourishes and supports her artistic approach. She has been moving away from theatre venues in favour of presenting dance in galleries, public spaces or on the Web. In 2011 the Canada Council for the Arts awarded her the Jacqueline Lemieux Prize for her contribution to enriching artistic life in Canada and abroad.

Reflections on the identities that we sow in our virtual adventures , Symphonie 5.1 stirs and fascinates. Not to be missed.

Nayla Naoufal